Join Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, for a series of short talks on new exhibition The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence.
Freelance writer and curator Francis McWhannell presents an illustrated talk on artworks with religious themes produced during the Italian Renaissance and Baroque periods, taking cues from the exhibition The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence.
Join Assistant Curator Emma Jameson for a final introduction to The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence and how this important private collection came to New Zealand.
Join Gallery Volunteer Guides and Dante Alighieri students Annemarie Hay and Helen Clark for tour of The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence.
Join Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, for a series of short talks on the exhibition, The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence.
Join Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, for a series of short talks on the exhibition, The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence.
Join Mary Kisler, Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, for an introduction to new exhibition, The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence and discover how this important private collection came to New Zealand.
On the opening weekend of The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence, join Silvia Contardi from Segafredo Zanetti for a demonstration on making a good coffee at home.
Join Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, for a series of short talks on the exhibition, The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence.
Perhaps not the chamber music you’d expect to accompany Auckland Art Gallery’s latest exhibition The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence, the live entertainment for this series of Open Lates showcases the talents of some of the new Renaissance people in the local music scene.
Perhaps not the chamber music you’d expect to accompany Auckland Art Gallery’s latest exhibition The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence, the live entertainment for this series of Open Lates showcases the talents of some of the new Renaissance people in the local music scene.
Perhaps not the chamber music you’d expect to accompany Auckland Art Gallery’s latest exhibition The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence, the live entertainment for this series of Open Lates showcases the talents of some of the new Renaissance people in the local music scene.
Join Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, for a series of short talks on the exhibition, The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence.
Join our special guests from the Corsini family, Contessa Elisabetta Minutoli Tegrimi and Contessa Livia Sanminiatelli Branca in conversation with the Italian ambassador to New Zealand, Fabrizio Marcelli.
Join Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection and International Art for a series of short talks on the exhibition, The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence.
Join Dr Natalie Bell for an illustrated overview that includes key portraits from the Renaissance, as well comparative material from The Corsini Collectionand gain a fascinating insight into the role of women during this period.
Join us for our special event “Is it Worth Protecting?” inspired by the work of Dr Bronwyn Holloway-Smith and Sue Elliott who are leading an initiative – Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand in partnership with Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
Join Phyllis Mossman, from the School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, for an illustrated insight into Raphael and his relationship to two popes, Julius II (whose portrait cartoon is in The Corsini Collection) and Leo X.
Represent yourself or your whānau/family through a shield, family tree or coat of arms. In the past people used family trees, shields and coats of arms to identify themselves down the generations. Experiment with mixed-media collage and create a shield for your whānau.
Travel to Florence with one of Merchant Ivory production's most beloved E.M. Forster adaptations featuring a cast of legendary actors, including Helena Bonham Carter in her breakout role and Maggie Smith playing the perfect acerbic matriarch decades before Downton Abbey.
Professor of Film Studies and former Head of the Italian Department at the University of Auckland, Laurence Simmons gives an illustrated talk in the exhibition on the popular spectacles, street festivals and drama that were an integral part of Florentine life during the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Travel to Florence with one of Merchant Ivory production's most beloved E.M. Forster adaptations featuring a cast of legendary actors, including Helena Bonham Carter in her breakout role and Maggie Smith playing the perfect acerbic matriarch decades before Downton Abbey.
A tragic love story set at the turn of the millennium in Milan starring Tilda Swinton. The film follows the fall of the haute bourgeoisie due to forces of passion and unconditional love.
Former Senior Lecturer, Art History at University of Auckland, Dr Don Bassett looks at some of the key architectural designs in Florence – medieval, early and High Renaissance – and places them into context with the artistic styles.
Calling all artists with imaginations! Take up the challenge of the Mystery Cassoni. Cassoni are chests which families fill with treasures. Your challenge is to create an artwork using the special things in our chest. The Corsini Collection is itself like one big treasure chest filled with treasures the family have cared for over 600 years. Explore, experiment, design and create.
Senior Lecturer, School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies at Victoria University, David Maskill, discusses the portrait by the Catalan-born, Paris-based, Baroque painter, Hyacinthe Rigaud who specialised in painting the aristocracy.
Travel back in time! Let the amazing frames of the artworks in The Corsini Collection inspire you to design and create your own exquisite portrait frame. Explore the patterns, colours and textures of the Corsini frames and start creating!
On the opening weekend of The Corsini Collection, enjoy a selection music from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries with Luca Manghi on flute and David Kelly on harpsicord.
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